Lalumier Elem School

As a modestly sized elementary-level community in Centreville, Illinois, Lalumier Elem School works with 276 students from grades pre-K through 3, operated by Cahokia CUSD 187. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Lalumier Elem School sits 28% below that benchmark.

Lalumier Elem School is one of 8 schools operated by Cahokia CUSD 187, a district that works with 2,991 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lalumier Elem School records that nearly all students (91%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Lalumier Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at Lalumier Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above St. Clair County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lalumier Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.2%, the actual is 6.8%, a residual of -12.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (St. Clair County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,854 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, St. Clair County runs 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students), of which Lalumier Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Wirth/Parks Middle School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lalumier Elem School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 16.6%.

Lalumier Elem School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lalumier Elem School has rose 14%, going from 242 students in 2018 to 276 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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